Scirocco Exchange
The project ended in 2021The Scirocco Exchange project (Health program 2014 - 2020), for which the Evaluation and Research Area has scientific responsibility for AReSS, supports European Health Systems authorities in the adoption and scaling-up of integrated care, through a European Hub for Integrated Care that serves as a facilitator for access to personalized learning and provides support for the development of competencies including through the enhancement of good practices developed by participants. Nine European regions, including Apulia, are evaluated through the use of the Maturity Matrix tool, an online tool for self-assessment of integrated care developed in the previous Scirocco project and tested in more than 60 European regions. Scirocco Exchange is among the projects that feed into the I-Care LAB.
To support European Health Systems authorities in the adoption and extension of integrated care. This is the goal of the Scirocco Exchange project, which from January 2019 to August 2021 involved 14 entities from ten European countries, including AReSS Puglia.
The project carried out activities along four lines: facilitate the understanding of the level of preparedness, needs and priorities of local contexts for the adoption and extension of integrated care; co-design personalized support for realities that need to strengthen the existing integrated care system or for realities that need assistance in the transition to the new system; use the results of knowledge transfer and capacity-building activities to design improvement plans tailored to local contexts, their full development, and the aspirations of different European organizations; develop a knowledge management system that serves as a facilitator for access to personalized learning and provides support for the development of skills essential for integrated care.
The Scirocco Exchange project has had institutions such as the European Health telematics association and the Assembly of European regions as well as national and regional authorities among its partners (Belgium - Flanders Agency for Health and Care, Germany - Optimedis, Latvia - Vilnius University Hospital, Poland - National Health Fund, Scotland - Scottish Government, University of Edinburgh, Slovakia - Pavol Jozef Safarik University, Slovenia - Institute of Social Protection of the Republic of Slovenia, Spain - Osakidetza, University and Research Centers, University of Valencia, Kronikgune).
The project ended on August 31, 2021.
- Coordination of the analysis of the "Readiness for Change" of Health Systems in 9 European Regions: the Basque Country, Flanders, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Apulia, Scotland, Slovakia, and Slovenia
- Conducting a regional survey on the maturity level of Integrated Care in the six ASLs of Apulia
- Organizing a Knowledge transfer in Apulia through the organization of Twinning and coaching webinars and the provision of 6 training vouchers made available to the six ASLs of the Apulia Region
- Feeding the Knowledge Hub on integrated care.
- Implementation of a Knowledge Transfer pathway to the University of Bologna with experimental use of the online tool to assess the perception of health workers in the Emilia region of the regional maturity of integrated care in the emergent context of the Covid-19 pandemic
Elisabetta Anna Graps is Scientific Head, Serena Mingolla coordinates the project, and Efthimia Pantzartzis is Assessment Manager.
Funding
The project is funded by the Health 2014-2020 program with a total budget of more than 2.6 million euros and grew out of the results obtained from the first Scirocco project, whose model was implemented and tested by more than 60 organizations across Europe through an online tool for self-assessment of integrated care.
